Sophie Auster and Rocky and The Pressers

"I tend to gravitate towards material that can be a little dark,” says Sophie. The unreleased material Auster has been working on for the past two years has been a huge evolution for the gifted and prodigious 25-year-old singer/songwriter. “The material has matured and grown as I have gotten older. It’s a process to hone in on your own style. I think a lot of what I have been doing over the past few years is discovering my voice.”

Stumbling into her career almost by accident, Sophie was sixteen when she recorded her first record. The album was a collaboration between Sophie and Brooklyn based musicians Josh Camp and Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero. Using her writer father, Paul Auster’s, early translations of French Surrealist poets, along with a few original lyrics written by Sophie, the poetic lines of Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, and Guillaume Apollinare became songs set to music by Josh and Michael.

Rocky and The Pressers are a six piece contemporary reggae band based in The Bronx, New York. The Pressers refresh the traditional genre tropes with lush vocal harmonies and flares of American folk and soul music. Their debut album was tracked primarily on a remote island in coastal Maine and features horns from Sharon Jones & The Dapkings and Antibalas.

7pm doors // 8pm show // All ages

$12 standing room
$15 seated

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